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Comment: Facebook still faces US privacy probes involving apps three years after Cambridge Analytica scandal

By Mike Swift ( July 26, 2021, 20:15 GMT | Comment) -- Even as the 2018 furor over the Cambridge Analytica privacy breach has faded, three separate US state attorney general investigations, including a multistate probe led by four states, are delving into what Facebook did or failed to do to protect the user data harvested by millions of apps on its platform prior to 2015, MLex has learned.The public furor has faded three years after news broke that the personal data of 65 million Facebook users was improperly collected by Cambridge Analytica, but Facebook still faces three distinct US state investigations into other apps that may have inappropriately harvested private information, MLex has learned....

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